jazzbo Posted August 9, 2011 Report Posted August 9, 2011 No, I think Bird Songs is great. It's time to wait and see. Meanwhile, EMI Japan is active with reissues. Quote
jlhoots Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 No, I think Bird Songs is great. It's time to wait and see. Meanwhile, EMI Japan is active with reissues. Me too. Quote
medjuck Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 The other Was brother (Dave?) had been a jazz critic I think. Quote
Chicago Expat Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 Okay, now you're just toying with my optimism. If you're old enough to remember when Was (Not Was) very first came out, they brought all kinds of influences to the table & were actually tangentally related to the "no wave" movement of the time, albeit in a significantly more overt R&B-ish way than most other in that orb. Which is just to say that Don Was is not some musical robot programmed to function in the prevailing vacuum. The guy has skills and he's not at all musically illiterate. I think it's unreasonable to expect him to bring in an ongoing stream of small groups into Rudy's on a weekly basis (besides, there's more than a few people making those types of records now, and...really, it's over. At least for me). But I wouldn't automatically expect him to turn out nothing but crass overt pop or "adult pop" records for the imprint either. Of course, he may do exactly that. I'm just saying that if you want anything like the "old" Blue Note, yeah, it's probably time to be suicidal. Otherwise, clean the gun, but don't load it just yet. I was either a junior or senior in high school when that dinosaur song came out. Anything that happened before that album got past me. Quite frankly, a lot of music got past me back then in all types of genres. I listened to music all the time, but my listening habits went deep into various discographies and not wide across the spectrum of music. That has changed for me since then. Based on the two opposing sets of videos you posted, I've returned to a state of cautious optimism. Cheers. Quote
peterintoronto Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 I'm just grateful for everything that Blue Note gave to the music over the years. From 1939 to about 1967 it's contribution to the arts was astounding. We were even treated to the Connoisseur and RVG series until a few years ago. You can't fight progress. This Don Was fellow doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 What ever happened to this?? Does anybody know what specific "material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery" was being readied?? This is from the Reissues forum: I direct you to a recent interview w/ Cuscuna (http://www.openskyjazz.com/blog/?m=200905): "The Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder series will continue to revisit more Blue Note classics. But the Blue Note vault is tapped out of releasable unissued material. That’s why we started what we call internally the discovery series, looking to outside sources for new discoveries. And we hit with a megaton bang starting it off with the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Charles Mingus At Cornell, and Horace Silver at Newport 1958 followed. We have a killer Freddie Hubbard album Without a Song - Live in Europe coming in June. Freddie was thrilled with this music - he told me he thought it was some of his best playing ever captured on tape. He was going to do a lot of press for it but alas… We are working on material by Andrew Hill and Wes Montgomery next." Hint, hint, hint... Whatever became of the "Discovery" series?? Anybody know what Andrew Hill and/or Wes Montgomery recordings were being prepared for release, and is any of that still in the pipeline? FWIW, Freddie's "Without a Song" came out in June '09. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted August 11, 2011 Report Posted August 11, 2011 i am not ok with this Quote
Shawn Posted August 11, 2011 Report Posted August 11, 2011 If it was 1970, I might be concerned with whoever is in control of Blue Note. It's 2011. Quote
brownie Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Posted February 4, 2012 Don Was has now been made President at Blue Note! Chicago Tribune article The only 'positive' point is the possibility of BN re-signing Wayne Shorter to the label. Quote
king ubu Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 So he gots paid for what? Doing nothing? Seems that even the annoying Wynetone and NoJo street team emails have stopped dropping in every other month... would wish it were different and we'd see some good reissues and some new productions that could actually be dubbed "jazz" (or #BAM or whatever). Quote
JSngry Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 Norah Jones' new joint is being produced by Danger Mouse? It that what that said? That could be interesting... Quote
.:.impossible Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 Could be the album that saves them both. Could be the album that comes between the last one and the next one. How about Blue Note picks up Flying Lotus as house producer and revitalizes the brand. Quote
alocispepraluger102 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 I'm just grateful for everything that Blue Note gave to the music over the years. From 1939 to about 1967 it's contribution to the arts was astounding. We were even treated to the Connoisseur and RVG series until a few years ago. You can't fight progress. This Don Was fellow doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. fine thought. Quote
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